| DAWKINS | Biologist who wrote The Selfish Gene (7) |
| STEPHENJAYGOULD | Evolutionary biologist who wrote "The Panda's Thumb" |
| RICHARDDAWKINS | Scientist whose publications include The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion |
| BATESON | English biologist who coined the term "genetics" and popularised the work of monk Gregor Johann Mendel (7) |
| HAECKEL | Biologist who coined the word "ecology" and compiled the Art Forms of Nature collection of illustrations (7) |
| CARSON | Marine biologist who wrote The Sea Around Us and Silent Spring (6) |
| DNA | "The Selfish Gene" topic |
| EDELMAN | Gerald --, American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or (7) |
| EGOTIST | He achieved his ton vulgarly, the selfish fellow (7) |
| OSCAR | Forename of a dramatist, novelist, poet and wit who also wrote short stories including The Fisherman and His Soul, The Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant and The Star-Child (5) |
| WILDE | Author whose book The Happy Prince and Other Tales contains five stories including The Nightingale and the Rose and The Selfish Giant (5) |
| GENE | The Selfish ___, 1976 book by biologist Richard Dawkins that coined the term 'meme' (4) |
| ECOLOGIST | Biologist who studies the interrelationships between organisms and their environments (9) |
| GENETICIST | Biologist who studies the science of genes (10) |
| OWEN | Richard, Victorian biologist who coined the term 'dinosaur' (4) |
| EGOTISTS | The selfish make the street sit up under Eastern attempt |
| OSCARWILDE | Author of The Selfish Giant and The Happy Prince (5,5) |
| CRICK | Francis, English biologist who shared the 1962 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (5) |
| GEORGEPSMITH | American biologist who shared one half of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Gregory P. Winter for work on phage display: 3 wds. |
| RACHELCARSON | Marine biologist who became an acclaimed nature writer in the mid-1900s: 2 wds. |
